Tag: Middle East

Turkey does not want ‘tattered and divided’ Iraq

Washington Examiner · June 30, 2014 1:55 pm

Tempers fray as displaced Iraqis break Muslim fast

Diaa Hadid · June 30, 2014 7:38 am

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, an al-Qaida-inspired militant stands guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northern Syria and huge tracks of neighboring Iraq formally declared the creation of an Islamic state on Sunday, June 29, in the territory under its control. (AP Photo, File)

National Security

Al-Qaida splinter declares new Islamic caliphate

Ryan Lucas · June 30, 2014 3:08 am

Thousands of Israelis gather for a rally calling for the release of the three missing Israeli teens, feared abducted in the West Bank on June 12, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 29, 2014. There has been an increase in rockets launched from the Hamas-ruled territory toward Israel this month, as the army has carried out a wide-ranging operation against Hamas in the West Bank while searching for three Israeli teens who Israel says were abducted by the Palestinian militant group. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Thousands of Israelis rally for abducted youths

Oded Balilty · June 29, 2014 7:41 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2014. Netanyahu has condemned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' agreement with the militant group, and said he would hold him responsible for the safety of the youths, who disappeared apparently while hitchhiking in the West Bank late Thursday. (AP Photos/Dan Balilty)

Israeli leader calls for independent Kurdistan

Washington Examiner · June 29, 2014 4:00 am

Iraqi federal policemen patrol in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, Iraq, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships launched an operation early Saturday aimed at dislodging Sunni militants from the northern city of Tikrit, one of two major urban centers they seized in recent weeks in a dramatic blitz across the country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq forces launch push for insurgent-held city

RYAN LUCASQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · June 28, 2014 8:37 pm

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Moderate Syrian rebels are buckling under the onslaught of the radical al-Qaida breakaway group that has swept over large parts of Iraq and Syria. Some rebels are giving up the fight, crippled by lack of weapons and frustrated with the power of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Other, more hard-line Syrian fighters are bending to the winds and joining the radicals. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

National Security

Blast in Damascus suburb market kills 2

Washington Examiner · June 28, 2014 2:57 pm

FILE This Oct. 9, 2003 file photo shows soldiers from the U.S. Army's 720th Military Police Battalion watching as a mine sweeper look for weapons in a hole they dug during a raid on a farmland just outside Tikrit, Iraq. The Obama administration announced Friday that the US will no longer produce or acquire anti-personnel land mines and plans to join an international treaty banning their use. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

US plans to curb land mines, join global treaty

Nedra Pickler · June 28, 2014 1:47 am

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Moderate Syrian rebels are buckling under the onslaught of the radical al-Qaida breakaway group that has swept over large parts of Iraq and Syria. Some rebels are giving up the fight, crippled by lack of weapons and frustrated with the power of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Other, more hard-line Syrian fighters are bending to the winds and joining the radicals. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Syrian rebels buckling in face of jihadis

Zeina Karam · June 28, 2014 12:11 am

Pentagon: Armed drones guard US interests in Iraq

Pauline Jelinek · June 27, 2014 9:53 pm

Palestinians gather around wreckage after an airstrike in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Friday, June 27, 2014. Palestinian officials said at least two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Earlier, Israel's military said it fired at Hamas targets in Gaza after an explosive device was deployed against troops on the border, causing no injuries. (AP photo/Hatem Moussa)

Militants killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Mohammed Daraghmeh · June 27, 2014 6:39 pm

FILE - This July 29, 2013 file photo shows Martin Indyk speaking at the State Department in Washington. U.S. special Mideast envoy Indyk is resigning after nearly a year of unsuccessful efforts to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, Obama administration officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

National Security

US Mideast envoy quits after attempt at peace deal

Matthew Lee · June 27, 2014 5:05 pm